We Carry the Tablets

Torah Poetry - Exodus

Mar 7

We enter this space
as an exit
from Egypt.

With mercy, compassion, love—
and also fear and fragility—
there is a kind of sadness in me.

A sadness of brokenheartedness,
of the brokenness
we all carry.

Yet there is also
a sacredness
I sometimes know—

the sacredness of the God
who leads us
from the mountaintop,
the mountaintop we call Sinai.

And yet Sinai
is not a place.

It is the experience
we yearn for
in every moment,
in everything we do,
in every experience we have.

We carry the tablets
within us.

We carry
the Golden Calf
within us.

When Stones Shatter